Rate my Orc/Merchant

Hi there, new to the game, just came out of a costly war, any suggestions/advise?

CB

Ruler Name: The Wealthy Lord
Personality & Race: The Merchant, Orc
Land: 782 Acres
Money: 337,730gc (23,382gc daily income)
Food: 49,674 bushels
Runes: 1,717 runes
Population: 20,706 citizens (26.48 per Acre)
Peasants: 8,947 (97% Building Efficiency)
Trade Balance: -136,829gc (0% tax rate)

ME+Stance (no spells): 100.71% off. / 127.23% def.
Soldiers: 0 (51.1% estimated draft rate)
Goblins: 0
Trolls: 5,912 (37,608 defense)
Ogres: 3,093 (24,920 offense / 7,870 defense)
War-Horses: 2 (up to 2 additional offense)
Prisoners: 137 (414 offense)

Total Modified Offense: 25,336 (32.40 per Acre)
Practical (100% elites): 25,336 (32.40 per Acre)
Total Modified Defense: 45,478 (58.16 per Acre)
Practical (0% elites): 37,608 (48.09 per Acre)

Thieves: 1,586 (2.03 per Acre / 53% Stealth)
Wizards: 1,168 (1.49 per Acre / 91% Mana)

Crystal-Ball on your province will show:
Max. Possible Thieves/Wizards: 2,576 (3.29 / Acre)
Estimated Thieves Number: 1,030 (1.32 per Acre)
Estimated Wizards Number: 386 (0.49 per Acre)

** Networth Table: **
Total Networth: 109,911gc (140.55 per Acre)
Land (90% built): 39,882gc (36%) - [15+40gc]
Trolls: 29,560gc (27%) - [5gc]
Ogres: 20,878gc (19%) - [6.75gc]
Peasants: 8,947gc (8%) - [1gc]
Thieves: 6,344gc (6%) - [4gc]
Wizards: 4,672gc (4%) - [4gc]
Money: 338gc (0%) - [1/1000gc]
War Horses: 1gc (0%) - [0.6gc]

Buildings: 950gc to build, 546gc to raze
Away bonus: 44,735gc (12h) / 134,205gc (20h)



SCIENCE

+5.8% Income (13,500 points)
+3.8% Building Effectiveness (11,026 points)
+4.1% Population Limits (30,995 points)
+35% Food Production (22,697 points)
+4.7% Gains in Combat (11,086 points)
+24% Thievery Effectiveness (12,512 points)
+21.7% Magic Effectiveness & Rune Production (14,701 points)



MILITARY

Non-Peasants: 58%
Efficiency (SoM): 118.5% off, 115.7% def, 102.4% raw
Net Defense at Home (from Utopia): 37,608
Modified Attack points (calculated): 29,324
Modified Defense points (calculated): 41,358
Total Captured Land: 126

** Standing Army (At Home) **
Trolls: 5,912 (34,201 defense)

** Armies #2/#3 (Back in 18:02 hours) **
Ogres: 1,547 (14,666 offense / 3,580 defense)
War Horses: 1 (1 offense)
Total Attack points: 14,667
Captured Land: 83 Acres

** Armies #4/#5 (Back in 18:56 hours) **
Ogres: 1,546 (14,656 offense / 3,577 defense)
War Horses: 1 (1 offense)
Total Attack points: 14,657
Captured Land: 43 Acres

** Troops in Training **
Trolls: 400 (2,314 defense)
Next 12 hours: 24 25 23 21 20 19 20 21 20 21 21 21...
Ogres: 164 (1,555 offense / 379 defense)
Next 18 hours: 14 14 8 8 7 7 7 10 8 7 8 7 8 9 9 8 7 10...





BUILDINGS

1. Homes: 99 (12.7%) built + 18 (2.3%) in progress
2. Farms: 53 (6.8%) built + 10 (1.3%) in progress
3. Training Grounds: 88 (11.3%) built + 45 (5.8%) in progress
4. Barracks: 0 (0%) built + 78 (10%) in progress
5. Forts: 43 (5.5%) built + 20 (2.6%) in progress
6. Hospitals: 99 (12.7%) built + 18 (2.3%) in progress
7. Guilds: 99 (12.7%) built + 3 (0.4%) in progress
8. Towers: 31 (4%) built + 8 (1%) in progress
9. Watchtowers: 47 (6%)
10. Dungeons: 19 (2.4%) built + 4 (0.5%) in progress


Total acres built: 578 (73.9% of total)
In Progress: 204 (26.1% of total)
Total acres: 782

1) damn small
2) merch, not warrior
3) too def heavy
4) DR low
5) dont post immediately OOW =)

Science and tpa/wpa is fine...

Raise the draft to 63-65% and build some training grounds and stables,then you should have a pretty good Orc/Merchant... If you are in a Mid level kd you don't have to worry beeing ambushed in war

Uhm, i would say use only 60% draft, dont go above and train some more ogres.

Science is too low, did you start your province at the start of this round or later? I suggest Sustained or Active research for a while, even if you're orc. Might even want to do some Learn attacks. Thieves and wizards are too high, grow a little more and let tpa/wpa drop.

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Originally Posted by _greenie

1) damn small

3) too def heavy
4) DR low
5) dont post immediately OOW =)

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These. Orc/Merchant is fine, I stood attacks (in war) by three Orc/Warrior as a Merchant, and in the long run the extra money and the stability beats the extra attacking time (my offense barely dropped, despite getting hit pretty badly). And warrior's -50% ambush effectivity is a joke since everybody knows ambush is there to kill elites - Merchant helps a lot against that.
You need at least 55% DR, 60% would be better - having more might hurt your economy (though as a Merchant that's not an issue) and having more peasants = better BR = filling up incoming land quicker.

I think you have a bit too many guilds - what are you seriously gonna use those wizards for?

And your science is weak. I'd recommend boosting the Military science, which synergizes (sp?) with your +30% gains.

raise ur draft to 60% and train 1:1 elite/defense ratio and u will look like a mini version of one of our orc/merchants on wol. good work hehe (buildings r slightly different but not by much)

u dont have too many guilds it looks about right

11% guilds is ample for orc self spells I think. Depends how low your wpa is at the time though really.

Little Update, draft rate is 60%, just not showing on the CB. Guilds Im leaving untill its 10%. How much modified defense per acre should I aim for when elites out and how much modified offense per acre? I am a little scared cause we are unfriendly with another KD who has another Orc the same size, only he beats me both in offensive and defensive.


The Province of


Server: World of Legends (Age 40)
Utopian Date: July 3rd, YR5 (82% in the day)
RL Date: September 18th, 2008 (8:49 GMT)

Ruler Name: The Wealthy Lord
Personality & Race: The Merchant, Orc
Land: 1,002 Acres
Money: 226gc (28,486gc daily income)
Food: 64,488 bushels
Runes: 6,962 runes
Population: 26,013 citizens (25.96 per Acre)
Peasants: 10,900 (94% Building Efficiency)
Trade Balance: -121,947gc (0% tax rate)

ME+Stance (no spells): 118.18% off. / 115.33% def.
Soldiers: 902 (53.3% estimated draft rate)
Goblins: 0
Trolls: 7,654 (44,138 defense)
Ogres: 3,489 (32,988 offense / 8,048 defense)
War-Horses: 2 (up to 2 additional offense)
Prisoners: 274 (971 offense)

Total Modified Offense: 35,027 (34.96 per Acre)
Practical (100% elites): 35,027 (34.96 per Acre)
Total Modified Defense: 53,226 (53.12 per Acre)
Practical (0% elites): 45,178 (45.09 per Acre)

Thieves: 1,823 (1.82 per Acre / 54% Stealth)
Wizards: 1,245 (1.24 per Acre / 76% Mana)

Crystal-Ball on your province will show:
Max. Possible Thieves/Wizards: 3,834 (3.83 / Acre)
Estimated Thieves Number: 1,534 (1.53 per Acre)
Estimated Wizards Number: 575 (0.57 per Acre)

** Networth Table: **
Total Networth: 140,511gc (140.23 per Acre)
Land (90% built): 51,102gc (36%) - [15+40gc]
Trolls: 38,270gc (27%) - [5gc]
Ogres: 23,551gc (17%) - [6.75gc]
Peasants: 10,900gc (8%) - [1gc]
Thieves: 7,292gc (5%) - [4gc]
Wizards: 4,980gc (4%) - [4gc]
Science (estimated): 3,062gc (2%) - [1/92gc]
Soldiers: 1,353gc (1%) - [1.5gc]
War Horses: 1gc (0%) - [0.6gc]

Buildings: 1,007gc to build, 600gc to raze
Away bonus: 54,500gc (12h) / 163,500gc (20h)


SoS (Last updated: 0 hours ago)
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Source: Utopia Angel, 1.92 Beta
Server: WoL (July 2, YR5)
Ruler Name
Personality: Merchant
Race: Orc

** Effects summary **
+5.2% Income (13,940 points)
+3.3% Building Effectiveness (11,188 points)
+3.6% Population Limits (31,233 points)
+31.1% Food Production (22,865 points)
+4.2% Gains in Combat (11,227 points)
+21.4% Thievery Effectiveness (12,688 points)
+19.3% Magic Effectiveness & Rune Production (14,881 points)



SoM (Last updated: 0 hours ago)



Server: World of Legends (Age 40)
Ruler & Race: , Orc.

** Summary **
Non-Peasants: 57%
Efficiency (SoM): 118.2% off, 115.3% def, 100.2% raw
Net Offense at Home (from Utopia): 12,043
Net Defense at Home (from Utopia): 47,856
Modified Attack points (calculated): 34,061
Modified Defense points (calculated): 53,211

** Standing Army (At Home) **
Soldiers: 902 (1,066 offense / 1,040 defense)
Trolls: 7,654 (44,125 defense)
Ogres: 1,161 (10,978 offense / 2,677 defense)
Total Attack points: 12,045
Total Defense points: 47,843

** Armies #2/#3/#4/#5 (Back in 13:35 hours) **
Ogres: 2,328 (22,014 offense / 5,368 defense)
War Horses: 2 (2 offense)
Total Attack points: 22,016

** Troops in Training ** (click here to show/hide)Trolls: 153 (882 defense)
Next 14 hours: 16 16 16 16 17 17 16 22 17 0 0 0 0 0...
Ogres: 140 (1,324 offense / 323 defense)
Next 14 hours: 13 13 15 15 14 12 15 14 14 3 2 2 1 1...
Thieves: 210
Next 12 hours: 13 11 10 11 11 11 11 10 11 13 11 11...


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Source: Utopia Angel, 1.92 Beta
Server: WoL (July 2, YR5)
Ruler Name:
Personality: Merchant
Race: Orc
Building Efficiency: 94.5%

** Buildings Summary **

1. Homes: 119 (11.9%) built + 11 (1.1%) in progress
2. Farms: 73 (7.3%) built + 7 (0.7%) in progress
3. Training Grounds: 137 (13.7%) built + 13 (1.3%) in progress
4. Barracks: 128 (12.8%) built + 12 (1.2%) in progress
5. Forts: 73 (7.3%) built + 7 (0.7%) in progress
6. Hospitals: 137 (13.7%) built + 13 (1.3%) in progress
7. Guilds: 102 (10.2%)
8. Towers: 46 (4.6%) built + 4 (0.4%) in progress
9. Watchtowers: 75 (7.5%) built + 22 (2.2%) in progress
10. Dungeons: 23 (2.3%)


Total acres built: 913 (91.1% of total)
In Progress: 89 (8.9% of total)
Total acres: 1,002

You don't need those WT unless you're at war or planning to be soon. Work on your science, will harm you long-term if you don't get a proper foundation.

ok now that looks nothing like our orc/merc lol

1:1 elite/defense ratio is ur best bet. at 60% that should translate to approximately 40dpa with 85opa depending on ur honor/building/payrate/tpa

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